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How does your dual core CPU perform?

Day03

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I've had my AMD x2 4200+ dual core cpu for a few month now and I'm happy with it but I don't think it's as good as many people say it is. Before I bought it there was all this hype that you can perform two tasks simultanously and you will not notice any slowdown. This is not true at least in my case, running two cpu intensive tasks at the same time does slow each other down quite considerably. For example extracting two movies at the same time from a RAR file does take longer that extracting them one at a time. How is everyone else finding their dual core cpus? Can you extract 2 very large RAR files simultanously without any slowdown?
I'm wondering if it's just me or are those cpus like that. I do have alll the latest driver and patches installed including the one from microsoft.
 
I'll try extracting the files on different HDDs and see if it makes any difference. But it's not just extracting which is slow. Also when I use QuickPAR and then try to open the start menu it hangs for quite a while before opening.
 
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